Greetings from USA's Oldest city

[Jamcdon1961]

Hi, my name is James. I have been smoking pipes since March, and I have a question. I have 6 pipes dedicated to a genre/type of tobacco in order to prevent issues with ghosting. I have one pipe I am not using because I do not have any other genre ideas. Any suggestions for genre/tobacco types I might be missing out on?

What I have so far is

English/Balkan/Latakia
VaBurs
VaPers
Cigar Leaf Tobaccos
Aromatics
Blends with Tonquin

What are your favorite genres/Types?


Thanks in advance, James

 

[proteus]

 

[proteus]

I too separate pipes. Categories to consider

VA per
VA straight
Oriental
Burley
VA Bur
Aromatics
English
Balkan
Scottish
Lakeland (natural aro)

then you can further divide by pipe chamber depth and width to get different effects.

It all about what flavors you want. I have pipes I smoke everything in and enjoy the mix. I have dedicated pipes by tobacco type brand and shape too. There's this one pipe I use for only Newminster 400 and nothing else. Never hard to find excuses to buy pipes.

 

[RobNYC]

Welcome from New York City!

 

[PaulRVA]

Welcome from Richmond Virginia.

Get some stacks for Virginias or a meerschaum or morta and burn anything in them.

 

[Kobold]

Welcome from Maryland!

 

[FurCoat]

Welcome from North Carolina

 

[STP]

Welcome, James

 

[trouttimes]

Welcome from Alabama.

 

[WVOldFart]

Hello and welcome from West Virginia.

 

[HRPufnstuf]

Welcome to the party! From...


Why paint yourself into a corner to start? Leave yourself a free-use pipe. If you run into ghosts, call...

 

[obc83]

Hi, my name is James. I have been smoking pipes since March, and I have a question. I have 6 pipes dedicated to a genre/type of tobacco in order to prevent issues with ghosting. I have one pipe I am not using because I do not have any other genre ideas. Any suggestions for genre/tobacco types I might be missing out on?

What I have so far is

English/Balkan/Latakia
VaBurs
VaPers
Cigar Leaf Tobaccos
Aromatics
Blends with Tonquin

What are your favorite genres/Types?


Thanks in advance, James

Welcome aboard, lots to learn here. What city? St. Augustine? Cahokia? Maybe I should google it but I miss the days of wild speculation.

 

[nathaniel]

Welcome! Central FL native here. Do you mean St Augustine?

 

[yanoJL]

Welcome! Central FL native here. Do you mean St Augustine?

I was just about to ask the same question!

OP, Hello and welcome from California Happy to have you here, friend!

 

[PA Piper Mike]

Welcome from PA. I have multiple pipes for most categories, but I also have 2-3 MM cobs that are for any and all.

 

[MRW]

Hi, my name is James. I have been smoking pipes since March, and I have a question. I have 6 pipes dedicated to a genre/type of tobacco in order to prevent issues with ghosting. I have one pipe I am not using because I do not have any other genre ideas. Any suggestions for genre/tobacco types I might be missing out on?

What I have so far is

English/Balkan/Latakia
VaBurs
VaPers
Cigar Leaf Tobaccos
Aromatics
Blends with Tonquin

What are your favorite genres/Types?


Thanks in advance, James

Hello and welcome to the Forum from Deep in the Heart of Texas. You will find this to site to be informative and the members insightful (and at times, most entertaining). Enjoy your stay!

To add to your selection, I very much enjoy straight, pure Virginias.

 

[tobakenist]

Hi and welcome James from Northants UK, older than where you live, I bet, happy smoking.

 

[anotherbob]

Welcome to the party! From...
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honestly I prefer surly grumpy slightly rude Manitoba.

 

[warren]

"Greetings from Nations(sic) Oldest city"​

What nation? At least give us a clue. Our membership is spread over the globe. Welcome to you wherever you are.

 

[anotherbob]

ghosting is probably right up there with aging pipe tobacco as one of the issues that is treated as more important then it is by pipe smokers. Now some ghosts can really stick and really effect a pipe. Sweet Mystery X by Solani is a really tasty candy type aromatic but I have a few pipes that still give a black currant blast from the one tin of that stuff I smoked a few decades ago. But most ghosts either disappear in a few smokes and are no more then a minor hint. Where ghosting is a real issue is when a pipe has been dedicated to a single genre or blend for years or decades. In fact when I started smoking a pipe in my youth the people that recommended or used pipe dedication (which was always presented as an option not a rule) focused more on the enriching and strengthening the particular blend more then avoiding ghosts.